Global Market Comments
August 25, 2016
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(MAD OPTIONS TRADER DELIVERS A 214.71% PROFIT IN 27 MONTHS),
(WHY I SOLD SHORT THE EURO),
(FXE), (EUO), (TLT), (TBT), (SPY),
(TAKING A BITE OUT OF STEALTH INFLATION)
CurrencyShares Euro ETF (FXE)
ProShares UltraShort Euro (EUO)
iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT)
ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury (TBT)
SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY)
I have recently heard from several subscribers of my new Mad Options Trader (MOT) service that they have earned enough in their first three weeks to cover it's cost FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS!
?Whiz?, who runs MOT for me, has certainly had a hot hand, with almost every trade turning immediately profitable.
At the request of several members, I have therefore conducted an audit of the long term trading performance of the Mad Options Trader.
The numbers blew my mind.
Since May 20, 2014, the Mad Options Trader has delivered A STUNNING 214.71% PROFIT, net of fees.
This is during a period when the overall market performance was essentially zero.
That is far better than my own numbers, but then ?Whiz? is much more aggressive and using more leverage over a shorter time frame than I am.
Chalk my cautiousness up to my advanced age. I am too old to start over again as a junior trader at Morgan Stanley, as if they would have me back.
Still, you now have your choice of winners, Mad Options Trader up +214.71% in 27 months, or Mad Hedge Fund Trader up +201.65% in 69 months.
You are spoiled for choice. It doesn?t get any better than that in the trading world.
I take great pleasure in pointing out that Whiz and I provide the only trade mentoring services that publish audited performance on a daily basis.
NONE OF THE OTHERS DO BECAUSE THEY ALL LOSE MONEY!
Believe me, if they HAD decent performance to report, it would be in your inbox every morning. Their silence speaks volumes.
I should take this opportunity to remind you that your free subscription to the Mad Options Trader expires in only one week, on August 31.
After that, the service will only be available as a $1,500 upgrade to your existing Mad Hedge Fund Trader service.
Nancy is taking orders now. You can email her directly with your request at support@madhedgefundtrader.com.
SPECIAL NOTE: Because of the urgency and frequency of the Mad Options Trader Alerts, you absolutely MUST sign up for our text message service.
For risk profiles of some of MOT?s recent trades, please see the charts below.
The ?Mad Options Trader service focuses primarily on the weekly US equity options expirations, with the goal of making profits at all times.
The trading will take place in the S&P 500 (SPX), major industry ETF?s like the Financials Select Sector (XLF), and large capitalized single names, such as Facebook (FB), JP Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM), and Apple (AAPL).
Matt is my old friend and fellow comrade in arms of Top Gun Options, one of the best performing trade mentoring outfits in the industry.
Matt?s performance works out to an eye-popping average of 7.92% a month, and annualizes out to an incredible 95.11% a year.
Matt, a native of New Jersey, joined the Navy straight out of college, and rose to become an F-18/A fighter pilot. He attended the famed Top Gun school in Coronado, California. During the second Iraq War, Matt flew 44 combat missions.
Matt left the service in 2006, and immediately entered the hedge fund industry. A rapid series of promotions eventually took him to Peak6 Investments, L.P., a prominent Chicago hedge fund.
There, he soaked up the most crucial elements of technical market timing, fundamental name selection, risk control, and options trade execution.
These are the multiple skills that have enabled Matt to post such a blockbuster performance.
Matt, known to his friends by his old pilot handle of ?Whiz?, is an incredibly valuable addition to the Mad Hedge Fund Trader team. I have appointed him Head of Options Trading.
I have known for some time that fortunes were being made in the weekly options expirations, where stories of tenfold returns are not unheard of. It is a strategy that is perfectly suited to these highly volatile, uncertain times, with most options positions expiring within four days.
Matt allows us to fill that gap in our product offerings.
The Mad Options Trader provides essential support for the active trader and will include:
1) Instant Trade Alerts texted at key technical levels. Alerts will be sent out on the opening and closing of every filled position.
2) Weekly Market Strategy Webinars held every Monday at 1:00 to 1:30 PM ET to give you a head?s up on the week ahead.
3) A weekly Live Trading Room held every Tuesday from 9:00 to 10:30 AM ET to give followers active real time trading experience.
4) Specialized Training Webinars on how to best execute Matt?s trades.
What I love about Matt is that he eats his own cooking.
Many of the Trade Alerts he recommends are executed in his own personal retirement account with real dollars.
From September 1, The Mad Options Trader will be available as a $1,500 per year upgrade to The Diary of the Mad Hedge Fund Trader or Global Trading Dispatch, the core research and trade mentoring service of the Mad Hedge Fund Trader.
Good Luck and Good Trading,
John Thomas
Publisher and CEO of The Mad Hedge Fund Trader
Sometimes during the heat of battle, I am unable to send out Trade Alert Updates, giving the logic behind my positions.
Yesterday was one of those days.
In rapid succession, I knocked out short positions in the Euro (FXE), (EUO), US Treasury bonds (TLT), (TBT), and the S&P 500 (SPY), (SH), (SDS). I would have bought the (VXX) if I?d had more time.
All three positions are making money today, the Euro hugely so.
I think the fix is in. Fed vice chairman Stanley Fischer showed his hand a couple of days ago, when he remarked about the Fed?s economic targets needed for a rate rise drawing near.
Fed speakers will talk up the chance of an interest rate rise all the way until their September 20-21 Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. They will then do absolutely nothing.
By then, all of our positions should have expired at their maximum profit point.
So until then, you can expect the entire yield play space to trade sideways best case, or get battered worst case. That?s all we need for this position to work. Today, they are getting battered.
Higher interest rates are great news for the US dollar and terrible for all other currencies.
Interest rate differentials are far and away the largest driver of foreign exchange markets. It sets up a great carry trade whereby traders can short Euros against the greenback and earn a large positive spread.
In the meantime, Europe will continue to signal that their rates will stay lower for longer.
Their economy is far too feeble to do otherwise. Now the Euro strength of the past two months is substantially eating into their exports.
Rising dollar : falling Euro sounds like a trade to me.
The same logic applies to the (SPY) and (TLT) trades, both of which will be damaged by rising rates.
In addition, the technical outlook for the Euro looks particularly dire. Look at the charts below, and you see a head and shoulders top within another head and shoulders top.
Not good, not good.
A dive below $1.10 for the Euro is a chip shot and is already well underway. A break below $1.00 is possible, but not until 2017.
I just thought you?d like to know.
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Global Market Comments
August 24, 2016
Fiat Lux
SPECIAL CAR INDUSTRY ISSUE
Featured Trade:
(SEPTEMBER 16TH PORTLAND, OR GLOBAL STRATEGY LUNCHEON),
(THE DEATH OF THE CAR),
(GM), (F), (TSLA), (GOOG), (AAPL)
General Motors Company (GM)
Ford Motor Co. (F)
Tesla Motors, Inc. (TSLA)
Alphabet Inc. (GOOG)
Apple Inc. (AAPL)
While the Global Trading Dispatch focuses on investment over a one week to six-month time frame, Mad Options Trader, provided by Matt Buckley, will focus primarily on the weekly US equity options expirations, with the goal of making profits at all times. Read more
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